Had to laugh

Sometimes it is the littlist things that I cannot help but to find amusing. I went down to Safeway to get some chinnse food for dinner tonight, and I went to the deli/foof aera in the store to pay for it sense that was all I was getting from the store so I did not want to wait in the regular lines, and anyway the guy working behind the counter was nice enough but I could not help but to notice, that while I was paying for my food and he was handaling the money and getting the change he was still weary the plastic gloves that you are suppose to wear when handaling the food, in order to keep your germs off of it.

Now I am not one of those germophobe kind of people who is over senstive about things like that and in fact I really did not care and was not bothered by it, but I could not help but to be amused by the irony of it. Though I do think the way people act in this day and age about helth and safety and germs and disease and such of the like is really quite over the top and I just wonder, what are people thinking really?

But then of course I do tend to view things in a rather odd sense I know, but the way I see it if human beings were really so fragile and delicate as everyone seems to like to pretend these days, well then the human race would have died off a long time ago and would never had made it this far. Yes we are more knowelable know then people were in the past and we should not just go living in filith, some regulations are imporant to have, but on the other hand of it, people just go too far with stuff like this, I mean afterhall human beings have surivied through the middle ages, when poeple would just dump all thier trash, and human waste by products out the windows into the street. Granted it was not very pleasent, but still humans suvived through it and did not all die off becasue of it, further a lot of the most popular diseases around that time, were not even realtated to germs passed in that fassion. Not to say there were not some people that likely got sick, but the most common diseases of the day tended to be things like, syphallis which came from sleeping around with whores, consumption which comes from an air borne bacteria, and the Black Plague which was brought over on rats that got aboard a ship within the East and was then brought to Europe.

Anyway sorry to get off topica and turn this into a little rant, but I just have to laugh over the things people panic about these days when I think back to what the human race has managed to survive.

8:53 PM - 1/10/2008 - post comment

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All these sterile foods we eat are going to be the death of us at some point, I'm sure. If we don't let our bodies get accustomed to the presence of germs, then in a few generations it won't take a lot anymore to make us really sick. We should be much more adventurous about our food. I mean, at some point in their childhood Mexicans seem to get immune from Montezuma's revenge, while I always hear bathroom horror stories from Europeans who go there.

Edited by dutchboy on 1/11/2008 at 1:07 PM

dutchboy - 5:06 AM - 1/11/2008

So True!

I've heard horror stories about people culturing money, but I personally don't see what organisms could stay alive for long on a surface with no moisture. How about the people who wipe down grocery carts! Have you seen the things for babies that are like giant, puffy blankets that attach to the seat so the kid never remotely comes in contact with the cart. Then we can't send food to school because all the kids have horrific allergies after having lived in a sterile environment. When people lived mainly on farms, such allergies were unheard of. You've brought up a great topic yet again!

Fightingfemale - 6:18 AM - 1/11/2008

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